Box Score

CARLISLE, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team exploded for its second 20-hit game of the season while senior Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) allowed just one run on five hits over eight innings pitched as the Bullets topped host Dickinson College 16-1 in a Centennial Conference (CC) tilt Friday afternoon.
 
All nine starters batted safely for Gettysburg (19-12-2, 7-5 CC), which split its season series with Dickinson after the Red Devils' 9-2 victory in Gettysburg on Tuesday. The Bullets also roped 20 hits in their 15-4 victory at Juniata back on March 29.
 
Senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) led Gettysburg at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a triple and four RBIs, while junior Josh Cubell (Lititz, Pa./Manheim Township) and senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) also collected three hits apiece. Junior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) added four RBIs.
 
The Bullets broke the game open with an eight-run seventh inning that made it 14-1.
 
Dickinson (19-15, 6-6 CC) struck early, scoring its lone run on a pair of hits in the first. But the Bullets came with back with a four-spot in the top of the second versus Red Devil starting pitcher Ethan Collins (2-2. Tom sparked the inning with a leadoff single before Lucido tripled him home. Freshman Tate Frodsham (McKinney, Texas/McKinney North), Cubell, and junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) would all follow up with RBI-singles as Gettysburg went up 4-1.
 
It was plenty of offense for Stopya (3-0), who allowed just three runners into scoring position the rest of the way. The Centennial Conference leader in ERA (1.40) entering the game, he faced his biggest threat in the third, when Dickinson put the first two batters on base on an error and a single. But Stopyra would retire the side, kicking off a string of 11 consecutive batters retired.
 
Reliever Ben Woodard shut out the Bullets over his first 2 2/3 innings before Gettysburg posted a pair of unearned runs in the fifth on an RBI-double from senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) and a run-scoring single from Lucido.
 
Anderson opened Gettysburg's big seventh inning with a leadoff walk. Tom followed up with a double before Lucido drilled a two-run single. Gettysburg's lead swelled to 10-1 following back-to-back RBI-singles from freshman Tyler Mitchell (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) and Cubell. Sneed settled any doubt with a three-run double, and Tom capped the outburst with his second hit of the inning, an RBI-single that made it 14-1.
 
Sneed and Anderson set the final score with RBI-singles in the eighth.
 
Stopyra retired the side in the eighth before leaving the game, finishing with five strikeouts and zero walks. He was relieved by sophomore Sam Dobbins (West Hartford, Conn./Hall), who tossed a scoreless ninth while striking out two.
 
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday, when it hosts Swarthmore College in a Centennial Conference doubleheader starting at 12:30 p.m. on Take ALS Yard Day.